Victoria Tafferner
Education
17/10/2011 - present
PhD, FU Berlin, North American Studies (History)
29/10/2010
Master of Arts in British and North American Cultural Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
22/07/2003
Diplom Orchestermusiker, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
08/12/1999
Bachelor of Music, University of Cape Town
Academic Employment
11/2010 – 08/2011
Research Assistant English Department, North American Studies, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hochbruck, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
09/2009 – 10/2010
Research Assistant, DFG Project “Historische Lebenwelten” Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2013
Scholarship, German Historical Institute Bosch Archive Summer School for Historians
Musical Employment
2001 – 2014
Concert Tours and Engagements in Opera, Orchestral and chamber music projects throughout Europe and Asia with the Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra, SWR Freiburg Baden-Baden und Stuttgart, Ensemble surplus, Basel Theatre, Deutsche Musikrat, Ensemble Aventure, Ensemble Ressonanz, Theatre Cottbus, Deutsches Film Orchester Babelsberg
2004
Ernst Siemens Prize with Ensemble Chronophonie
1995 – 2000
Engagements in various African Orchestras (including: Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Namibian National Symphony Orchestra)
Languages
English, German, Afrikaans
Teaching Experience
2008
Organization of extra-curricular Master’s tutorial
2009
Tutoring position undergraduate Cultural Studies
2010
Proseminar : Brits, Boers and Bogans (Uni Freiburg)
2011
Proseminar: British News Media (Uni Freiburg)
2014
Proseminar: Visual Histories of Labor, Gender, and Occupational Health in the Progressive Era (FU Berlin)
Conferences
12/2009
EUCOR Conference paper, "Searching for the (un)common Man: Class and Re-enactment"
04/2010
Irish Theatre Conference Trinity College, Dublin, Conference paper, "The Rush"
07/2011
Freiburg Institute for Advance Studies Conference paper, "No Pot for the Chicken: Redefining Lack in the 21st Century"
07/2012
Organisation of and Closing Remarks, GSNAS International Conference 2012: Making It Home
12/2012
Colloquium Paper, Berlin, "Envisioning Embodiments: Work, Injury and Women in the Progressive Era and the Shaping of Affective Labor"
01/2014
Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, Conference Paper, “Inhuman Form, Heart Warm and Tender: Negotiating the Broken Bodies of Progressive Era Working Women”
Publications
Forthcoming 09/2014
European Congress on World and Global History, Paris, Conference Paper, “Trials by Fire and the Making of Americans”
2010
Tafferner, Victoria, Regina Loftus and Paul Rolke. 2010. “Ventures into History.” Staging the Past. Eds. Judith Schlehe, Michiko Uike-Bormann, Carolyn Oesterle and Wolfgang Hochbruck. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 235-53.
2011
Settler and Creole Reenactment (Review), http://www.theaterforschung.de/rezension.php4?ID=1146
2012
Birds and Bees: Transnational Histories of Sex Education (Review) http://www.ahfmuenchen.de/Tagungsberichte/Berichte/pdf/2012/137-12.pdf